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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

RICHABD LINDSAY, of Sedaia, Mo-, sup
posed to be deaf, was Wednesday struck
by train on the Wabash track and in
stantly killed.
MATTHEW RAPP, q St. Joseph (Mo.)
farmer, went to his door Tuesday morn
ing, during violent storm, and was struck
by bolt of lightning. He fell dead IN
his wife's arms.
A GIgL y years old, named Nicholson,
was struck BY train two miles west of
Reeds Landing, Mimi, Tuesday morning
and killed Engineer Langley say her
for nearly half mile walking toward
him on the track. Ash approached her
he rang the bell and blew the whistle, but
she seemed to pay no attention and 1t
was too late then to stop the train.
A GENTLEMAN from South Pitsburg,
Tenn. brings the information of hor-
rible explosion at the InmaH mines, near
that place. About 4 o'clock Tuesday
morning, while a chamber in the mines
were crowded with miners "a box of dyna-
mite exploded with an awful es nit. 1t
Is reported that five men were blown TO
atoms axd eight or ten were terribly in
iured, some of whom will die. The ex
plosion did great damage.
THE Hon. Samuel L. Gibson, one of the
most prominent members OF the Erie! bar,
was accidently drowned at Erie, while
fishing. Mr.. Gibson was in the act of
casting the anchor, when a lurch of the
boat threw him out, and he was held
down by the anchor. He had $4,000 in
surance upon his life, $4,000 of which
would have expired i'll less than two hours
after the time OF his death. Deceased
was ex- Commissioner of the Fort Peck
Indian agency.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
GENERAL NOTES.

The Gorier Iron and Steel Co, of Roam
oke, Va, have made an assignment, giving
preferences for S37S,OOO.
FARMERS began harvesting wheat in
Shelbyville, ILL.,, Thursday. The acreage
Is large and the yield never better.
PRESENT indications are for a wool clip
in Michigan of 11,64l,0O0 pounds. The
humber of sheep i'll the State is $4,000
less than in 1854.
WILLIAM Z. CHANDLER was yesterday
chosen by the New Hampshire legislature
to fill the unexpired term of the late Unit
ed States Senator Pike. He received the
full republican support.
THE great coke strike in Pennsylvania
is thing of the past, the employers hav-
ing made an unconditional surrender.
BY the middle of the week it is expected
that all the works will be in operation
again with full complement of hands.
WASHINGTON dispatch denies that
President Cleveland intends to make a
circuit of the western fairs next fall. he
will attend the Grand Army celebration
at St. Louis, and will probly make brief
stops at Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago,
and Omaha going and ceming. 1t is al
so stated that he contemplates fort
nights shooting in the Adirondacks late
in the summer.
THE speculative boom in coffee culmin-
ated in panic on the New York coffee
exchange, Tuesday, which carried down
B. g. Arnold i Co. and Makay & Small.
two of the leading houses in the trade,
The liabilities of the former are estimat
ed at over Sl,o0o,00o, and of Makay &
Small at from S150,o00 so 100000
Many other failures are expected to
follow
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24

the satisfaction of the aronaut, and
.sss lacking six thousand short of the
fail desire. In the car are four
men, A. Z. Loere, eronsut. Professor ]
Doughty, photographer; Edward Duffy.
World correspondent aud Prof. Allen
Hazen of the signsi service bureau. The
party went we'll supplied with provisions
heavy clothing and requisite instruments.
twenty carrier pigeons from different
stations IN Missouri were also taken. ten
of which will return with messages to-
aIgst and the others will be liberated to-
morrow. They will avoid the great lakes
aad by tomorrow evening expect TO land
Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
Sr. LouIS, June lS.-A telegram to the
Post Dispatch from the Worlds balloon
correspondent, Duffy, says that they were
compelled 10 land at Hoffman. Clinton
county, III, near Ceutrsiia, at Sis last
night. Moore received a very painful in
jury before starting yesterday. and a
message states that this aud she giving
out OF the gas WAS the cause assigned for
the descent None of the other occu-
pants OF the car were injured and the
balloon was securely auchared without
tear. Hazen sayS the balloon reached a
height of Is coo feet above the surface of
the earth yesterday, vt $50 u. nj. This
Is the highest on record in America.
h"Een say ,hv trip was raa Of exciting
incidents ana w, scientifically success,
full.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
The Audoycr Seminary TroUui,

ANDovER. Mass, June l7.-Professor
EgberC G. Smith and his adherents in the
faculty of the Audover seminary, were
tiled some months ago for teaching doc
triues contrary TO those laid down by the
founders of the university. Their chief
points of otrense were III denying the
plenary inspiration of the entire Bible,
and holeing that thero i pyrbatioE for
the sinner after death. The board
of visitors to-dHy found Prof. Smith
guilty, but failed Ia sustain the indict-
ments against Prof. Tucker, Church
Harris, ana Edward Smith. The Office
of Prof Smith is to be declared vacant.
Prof. Smiths acquitted associates say
the matter viii be carried To the supromc
court aud that III the meantimo as the
trustee5 are with them and re superior
to the visitors, Prof Smith Will continue
to teach as heretofore.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
FOREIGN.

A NEW cabinet mas been formed in
Servia, with NJ. Ristics as premier and
minister of foreign affairs.
The North German Lloyd Company's
steamship Ems, on which Mr.. James G.
Blaine is a passenger, arrived off the
Lizard at 6 O'Clock Thursday morning,
from New York.
Owing to previous arrangements Mr..
Blaine has been forced to decline the
Mayor of Southampton's invitation to
attend the jubilee banquet in that city.
DIR. MACKENZIE again examined the Ger
man Crown Princes throat. The Doctor
reports that he found that the fungus
growth had not enlarged, and that there
were no signs of congestion.
PRINCE ALBERT VIC~OR, eldest son of
the Prince of Wales, will attend the grand
jubilee thanksgiving services held in st.
Patrick S cathedral, Dublin, June %, and
will on that occasion be decorated with
the order of st Patrick.
THE flood has reached Mako, Szegedin,
and Hue, near Vienna, and there is great
distress in these towns. Thousands of
men are working with untiring energy to
repair the dykes. Piles have heen drivon
twenty feet into sand and fastened
together with strong chains, yet after a
few hours rush the water tore them away.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
SQUIBS

Susie GushingtOn calls her young nan
rainbow because he is beau of promise.
General Booth, the Marshall of the Sal
walton army, is about to become an
American citizen, and still the Chinese
immigration law is in force.
King Kalakaua has twenty dancing
girls III his service, and it is ruaored that
the tears shed over the Queens absence
have proved utterly insufficient to run the
royal syw-mili.
Lady Now Anna, who was that young
man you talked so long with in the base
ment last night:" Servant - why,
Missus, have you never been loved,
that you ask such question:"
Jay Gould is very short man, bat he
never knows what it is to be short.
Jefferson Davis has com pleted his
seventy ninth year.
Count ToIstoi, the Russian novelist,
mends all his own clothes
The wool prospects in She west are ex-
cellsnt, owing to the very favorable
winter.
General Meade's monument in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, will be dedi-
Gated on October Is.
An earthquake shock was felt at Som sr-
vile, South Carolina. at 10:37 Sunday
morning.
The Michigan senate has passed joint
resolution fer final adjournment June
%, II is believed the house will concur.
Congressmen who faver the repeal of
the tobacco excise predic. that this will
be easily accomplished at the approach
ing session
There il great excitement in South
Carolina over the alleged negro upris-
ing In Laurens county. State officers
have gone to the scene of the difficulties
to investigate.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
none thanone pension for the same period,
and rank in the service shall not be consid-

none thanone pension for the same period,
and rank in the service shall not be consid-
cred.
Section three provides that if any in
valid pensioner has died, or shall hereaf-
ter die, leaving a widow, minor child or
children, Is years of age. or in case there
be no widow or minor child or children,
q dependent mother or father, such wild
ov. minor child or children or mother. or
father, shall be placed upon the pension
roll at the rates established by Law for wild
ows. minor children and parents, with
out regard to the cause of the death OF
such pensIoner; provided, that said wild
owns married to the deceased pensioner
prior to the passage of this act. That
the increase of pensions for minor chit
dren shall be at the rate of So per month
instead of 81 per month, as now provided
by law, and in case minor child is iu-
sane, idiotic or otherwise helpless, the
peusion shall continue during the life of
said child, or during the period of such
disability.
Section imposes fine of $500 or i'm
prisonmeut at hara labor not exceeding
two years, OIL both, in the discretion of
of the court, on agents or attorneys, ac-
cepting greater fee than so, payable on
ly upon the order of the Commissioner of
Pensions by the Pension Agent making
payment of the pension allowed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
Wrestling On Horseback.


Sam Matthews, the champion wrestler
of the Pacific coast, arrived here not long
ago, after a long absence through the
southern counties and Mexico. During
the trip Mr.. Matthews met in the arena a
number of people and defeated them all
While in the south he conceived the
novel method of wrestling on horseback
The thought struck him as being a good
one, and became so firmly fixed in his
head,that he decided to get up e code of
rules on ''hOrseback wrestling"
In the first place the horses must be of
medium weight and height, and horns or
projecting points ON the saddle. No
straps or buckles to prevent either man
from falling eff to be used The con
testing parties must take their positions
at least twenty yards apart, and at the
call of time must meet right side to
right side, each clasping the others hand
and then breaking. The first man being
dismounted in any way, except by ac
cident, so that both feet touch the ground
at the same time shall be declared
the loser and the fall will be given a
galnst him.
Climbing from one horse to another is
fair and will be allowed. Kicking or strik-
ing either man or horse shall constitute
foul and the one committing n deliber-
ately foul will lose the match.
"It is very exciting rastime, said the
originator. "and l thins that it will be
the coming sport
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
PEOPLE AND ENENTS

The strikers at the Pennsylvania salt
works at Natrona, Pa, were served with
writs, Tuesday, ordering them to vacate
the company's houses on or before the
first Monday in July. The alternative is
eviction.
The decrease of wheat in store at Min
neapolis, St. Paul and Dulath last week,
aggregated $4,000 bushels. The ship
ments from Minneapolis were the largest
on record. 1t is thought the receipts
will be very small from this time until
after harvest.
Documents are dis isplayed in the Morse
de epartment of the American exhibition
in London TO prove that America was
discovered in 9S5 by an Icelander named
Lief Erikson, thus antedating Columbus
500 years.
The new silver vaults in the treasury
building at Washington will not be com
pleted for several months. Meantime
the department officials find themselves
embarrassed by lack of facilities for
the storage of the constantly increasing
accumulation of buzzard dollars.
Six wagon loads of gambling para
phernalia, confscated by the police, were
puOllCIy DuTueu dJ Alldutd, ud' L ne
value of the stuff is placed at $4,000, and
the gamblers threaten to sue the city for
damages.
The porte has been formally advised
of Queen Victoria's signature TO the
Anglo Turkish convention regarding
Egypt.
Tennessee will vote on prohibition
amendment to the state constitution in
September. The campaign hos already
opened, and promises to be closely CON
tested.
The jury in the Sharp Doodle case at
New York was finally completed Wednes-
day, the twenty-second day of the trial.
The whole number of talesmen examined
was 1,196. The accused will be guarded
by a sheriffs posse at his own residence
during the proceedings.
very rigid Sunday observance law
was passed by the Missouri legislature,
and the police of st. Louis are preparing
foI its strict enforcement. 1t prohibits
the opening of saloons, billiard-rooms,
theaters, bowling alleys, beer-gardens,
and baseball grounds on Sunday. The
saloons have combined to fight the law,
and will make a test case to determine its
q cODstitutiOnality
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

SAMUEL MYERS superintendent of the
Miami County Md Asylum for the Poor,
was arrested Thursday on a charge of
maltreating patients.
HARRY LoUoKs, of York, Pa, was arrest
ed at Louisville, KY, Tuesday on serious
charge. He had deserted his intended
wife, Miss Cora Mellen, at the altar, and
the girl unhappy confidencein the south
was shortly afterwards noticed.
The body of negro named Peter
Betters was found suspended from tree
in the fair grounds at jamestown yester
day morning. He had been lynched by
mob for murderous assault upon an
aged woman of his own race.
AT the inquest on the lunatic, Parrish,
who died at the Ward Island Asylum, lew
York. an attendant testified Wednesday
that refractory patients were at timer
treated with great brutality. The verdict
was that death resulted from the violent
treatment of McHugh and CIeary. The
attendants were held.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24

mortality among the turkeys in the
vicinity of Oconto.
The Grand Temple of Homer of Wis
consin will hold its fourteenth annual
session at West Depere, commencing next
week.
The Waukesha Water Works company
is now laying 1900 feet of pipe a day,
and work on all the main streets will be
finished by July l.
The city attorney of Green Bay has
been instructed to prepar an ordinance
to prohibit the erecting or maintaining of
a barb wire fence within four feet of any
highway in the city.
The Wisconsin river Is at very low
stage of water, and does not much re-
semble the rushing torrent of a few
months since.
The city of La Crosse is driving a
double row of piles in the La Crosse
river, intending TO have the water pipe
suspended from them just high enough to
clear the bottom of the river. 1t is plan
to obviate the frequent breakages that
have occurred in the past.
There has been gradual downward
tendency in freight rates throughout the
northwest, including Wisconsin, for some
time. Conservative managers are alarm
ed at the prospect.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
BADGER HAPPENINGS.

Fozd du Lac has fifty saloons.
La Crosse is to have new $4,000
school building.
Work has been commenced on Racine's
new tack factory.
The Ashland Jail has forty-two prison
ers.
Tramps in Ashland are tied to bal
and chain and worked on the streets.
The owners of the Darlington mill will
put fish chute in their dam.
pork packing establishment is to be
located at Marinette.
l. is claimed that in no city in the
state except Milwaukee, are so many valu-
able pictuces ownedby residents as Green
Bay.
The city council of Racine has author
ized the purchase of 200 street signs to
be placed on every corner.
Commencement exercises will begin at
Racine college next Sunday evening,
when the baccalsureate sermon will be
preached.
new disease is creating widespread
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
DRUMMING GEN DRUM

The Evening Wisconsin gives General
Drum the following gong over simply
because he originated the idea of return
ins the flags:
\ eenticmau of this city who knows General
Drum SAYS he has scarcely hraius enough to orig
mate such idea. He has been in the aijataut
generals department for over thirty Ne''S
Is now nearly seventy yenrS OF age Huu l. Nhst
Ee technically terms fCssil Clerk lt - Ju-t
to General sheridan TO say that he dId un' Io 1T
Drum. The latter usC solely hy seniority q his
present position.
prum Is. like many ther haruaclss at Washine-
ton, unit tor hts poS.lloH The position ot adJu-
taut general TeQultrs first class man, for he -
the fourth man IN the Euvrrumeut Va the mater
If military orders tie Is preceded only by tre
prt tsideuf, The secretary ot war, ard Lieutenant
General Sheridan.
We publish tho above simply to show
how easy il is for an intensely partisan
paper to uniustly abuse good and faith
tul officials whenever they think they
can cater To the prejudice of one sided
men by SO doing. II this same General
Drum, who has grown old in the service
of his country, had been removed
through the influence of the administra-
tlon what cry would have been raised
by the Evening Wisconsin stripe of news
papers, over the removal of a faithful
official who had held q position for ,ver
thirty years and was perfectly familiar
with the duties OF the office etc.-La
Crosse ChroHiele.
For years the adiutant generals de
partment has been constantly annoyed by
some old military organization some
where in the country for the return of
some flag or banner aud doubtless Gen.
Drum originated the idea of sending
these old flags to the several states to get
rid of them aud the annoyance they
caused. The idea was all right and the
mistake Gen. Drum made was in sending
out letters stating that the president ap'
proved of it. If he had announced that
he was the big injun" of Kit Carson G.
\. II. post of Washington d. c., L. S. A
and that he was doing it, then there
would have been no politics in il
and nobody would have cared q
button about it. But Gen. Drum had Ie-
ported what he was doing to the secretary
of war, who n turn had reported it to
the president, Who verbally assonted, and
Gen. Drum announced in his letter that
the president had approved OF his scheme
Here then was political point, and tn,
loyal heart OF republican patriots of the
Evening Wisconsin type bubbled like on,
of the mud geysers of the national park
1t is sll cheap political patriotism.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
How 10 Paper 4 Room

This is not a poetic subject, and is
work that all avoid who can, yet it has to
be done, aud often the amount is so tria-
ing that many will do it themselves
rather than bother with employing a
professional. For such some instr action
may be useful. The task is not as diff
as might be imagined. To clean the wall
with solution of white glue makes a
good beginning. In making the paste,
add an ounce of pulyerizei alum to every
pound of sifted -four, mix smoothly with
cold water, and pour over it gently, but
quickly, boiling water, stirring constantly
When done it should stand until perfect.
ly cold. The wall should be smooth, and
if dirty or greasy spots appear on 1t be
fore papering, ii should be washed in lye.
The edge OF the paper must be Eeatly
trimmed down to the pattern. A long
table or wide board should be provided
upon which to lay the paper. Then all
the full oreaths required for the room
can be cut and should be matched. Al
ways begin at the rIght-hand side and
work to the left.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
A NEW PENSION BILL.

Provisions of Measure Fathered by the
Grand Army of the Republic. and to be
Urged for Passage ON the Next Congress.
MILWAUKEE, WIS, June ia special
from Madison, Wis, says: Adjutant
General Gray, of the Grand Army of the
Republic, is busily engaged in issuing TO
all the posts in the country an important
document in the nature of q dependent
pension bill, whose passage will be urged
upon the next Congress It was drafted
oy the National Pension Committee of
the Grand Army of the Republic. com
posed of the following members of the
order: George S. Merrill, of Phiiadel-
phia; James Dauner, of Brooklyn. n. Y.
John C. Linehan, of Penacook, Y. H., and
John S. kountz, of Toledo, Ohio. This
committee was appointed b. Commander
in-Chief Fairchild, under resolution OF
the National Encampment. Section l of
the bill provides that in considering the
pension claims of dependent parents, the
fact and cause of death, and the fact that
the soldier left no widow or minor child
or children having been shown. as re-
quired by Law, it shall be necessary only
to show by competent ard sufficient evi-
denee that such parent or parents are or
have besn without other means of SUP
port than their own manual labor or the
contributions of others lot legally bound
for their support: Provided, That all
pensions allowed under this section of
this act shall commence from date of
actual dependence, If claim was filed
prior to July l. 1880, and in case of appli
cations thereafter made, the pension
shall commence from the date of the fl
ing of the application in the Pension
Office, or from the date of subsequent de-
pendence-
Section provides that all who served
three months IN the military or naval
service of the United States and who have
been honorabIy discharged and are suffer
ing from mental or physical disability
not the result of their own personal
habits, shall be entitled TO receive S12 per
month: that persons who are now receiv-
ing peusons under existing laws or whose
claims are pending il the Pension Office,
may receive the benefits of this act: that
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
Why Coroner DreXeI Never Married
Omaha Herald

Coroner Drexel is q faciuating bachelor;
explained to the Listner yesterday why
he had never married. "a few years ago,
he said, Il met lady and formed an affe-
ction for her. She was petite and pretty
and l at once concluded that she'd make
a becoming Mrs. Drexel. But she killed
it in twinkling one night. was at her
fathers house spending the evening. Her
father had one of the homliest old mules
you ever saw. All at once. during an In
teresting conversation, she stopped and
said: John what's the difference between
yoa and fathers mule!' L thought how
far the barn was and said: 'Oh about
sixty-fve feet She said: No, that's not
it | asked what was the difference.
Well said she, 4 nsver could see any
difference 1t was then II 80 O'Clock, so
l retired and never returned" As he
finished the story he dropped tear In
the pine coffin and walked out.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24

PRINCETON n. j., June ll.--lhe faculty
of Princeton college for the last iev
weeks has been considering whll should
be done i'll regard tn the numerous
new branches which have been aud
still are being introduced inru the cur
riculum of the college. After curefi de-
Liberation the convection was reached that
oil these cannot be brought into 'he col
lege proper, therefore thy nave to come
to the unanimous conclusion that they
must organize post gradmts aud uni
yersity courses to be cuDsummated Ill tho
university degrees.